We were in for a rainy and windy day at the temple. There was no point getting you hair just right. At some point, we all started laughing. Eric's parents are from Fresno, so they were freezing cold. I felt terrible for taking so many pictures outside. Wakana did a fabulous job.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Marnie and Eric's Wedding
Friday, December 28, 2018
Marnie's Reception
We drove to the Turners to use their gazebo for a reception announcement reminder. It was raining, but not snowing, so that was good. Grandma and Grandpa Beck offered us their home for an open house. I made a bunch of treats and of course Tauni had plenty of goodies. It was wonderful to see so many friends and family come visit and share their love.
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Tailoring
I don't have great tailoring skills. I prefer two dimensional sewing, not 3-D. A few weeks ago I picked up a dress form on Craigslist to help me alter Marnie's wedding dress. It was really helpful while she was in Rexburg. The last bit was the zipper. Once she returned home, I did a fitting and finally sewed the zipper in. When I took this picture, I was feeling triumphant.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Temple Trip
We all carpooled down to the temple to accompany Marnie as she receives her endowment. It is a busy week, but these times fill my heart with such joy. Afterwards we went to Lynnwood to The Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Mmm, that was great.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Storm at Sea Finished
Quilting Mayhem started a unique program for finishing quilts. Quilters sign up in December and create a list of quilts they are going to finish during the next year. I wrote a list of 12 quilts, some that were completed tops and needed quilting and binding, some that were half done, and some that had just one block done. That was my challenge with Storm at Sea. Since Diana gave me the book and I made one block, I ran out of the hand-dyed fabric. In order to complete this quilt, I had to find the dye recipe to make the fabric first.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Christmas Party
Why not have a Christmas Party? I love making treats for the holidays so we had a party with some close friends, enough to fill the front room. We talked about meeting our spouses and a little bit about our weddings. We have the funniest friends.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Jackson & Amber Wedding
This wedding will go down as the most dramatic for us. And the bride doesn't even like drama! Paul and I flew into Anchorage on Thursday evening, rented a car, and drove to our hotel. Jackson had flown up the week before to help set up for the reception. We stopped by Amber's family home and enjoyed a lovely dinner. We took Jackson with us so we could be together the night before the wedding.
At 6:30am Paul woke up and started getting ready. The wedding wasn't until 11am so I complained a bit. But Jackson and I got up and were dressed by 8:30am when the earthquake started. It was still dark outside because it was November in Alaska. I was in the bathroom when the lights went out. I couldn't figure out why Paul and Jackson were jumping up and down on the floor. We were staying on the 3rd floor which was the top floor.
I suddenly couldn't remember what to do during an earthquake. Should I hop into the bathtub? I opened the door and saw Jack and Paul looking out the window. Car alarms were going off in the darkness below. The power came back on and the Emergency Broadcast System were telling us there was a tsunami alarm. We should go to higher ground. Well, we thought we'd just stay here. That was until someone knocked on our door and told us to evacuated. There could be a gas leak.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Quilting for YaYas
If I remember right, this is Merry's quilt from our YaYa group. I loved the style of this improv quilt. I guess it could be a pattern, but just as easily put together by the seat of your pants. Quilting straight lines is difficult here just because there were many stops and starts. I used mountains on the top and bottom and continued triangles on the sides.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Running out of thread is a longarmer's worst problem. If I reach the bottom of the quilt and run out of thread at 10pm, it's all over. The nearest location for thread is 30 minutes away. I looked at the back of the machine only to see the last of it spooling off as I was still quilting. Luckily, I had pre-wound an extra bobbin at the beginning. Hallelujah.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Naomi & Chewie
Naomi loves this little Chewie toy. She is such a cute little girl.